Database: OECD Health Statistics (European Union)

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Primary purpose: Provides health data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Type of information: Data Dictionary: OECD Health Statistics. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organisation Mortality Database.

Data level: national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1960-2021.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Full list of cancer types: OECD Health Statistics. Click here to learn more.

Data access: publicly available. Click here to access.

(To access Cancer Morbidity data, click the link, then click in the section "Cancer" from the "Health Status" list);

(To access Cancer Mortality data, click the link, then click in the section "Causes of mortality" from the "Health Status" list -> in the table, select the type of neoplasm in the section "variable").

Contact information: Click here to access.